Helping People Live Effective Lives
How you think about a person, good or bad, will be evident to that person if you are close to them. You may be able to hide your authentic attitudes from those who are not your most intimate …
[Read more...] about A Common Marriage Problem: I Don’t Like You
If you are married, do you hate yourself? Let me ask it another way, “Do you dislike your spouse?” If you do struggle with your wife, you struggle with yourself because you’re not two individuals but …
[Read more...] about To Be the Man You Must Nourish and Cherish Your Wife
Frequently, our most pressing need is not our most important need. Sometimes God works in unsuspecting ways, maybe ways we did not perceive or even want. Ironically, His ways can seem foolish to the …
[Read more...] about Submitting Your Life to the Foolishness of God
The counterintuitive irony of the gospel is that God calls us to a place of weakness so He can perfect His strength in us. This perspective sounds good conceptually, but it hard to live out when you'd …
[Read more...] about The Wisdom of Boasting in Your Weakness
Both husbands and wives can be mean to each other. This truth is sad as well as a call to mobilize your attitudes and actions to come alongside the erring spouse. How do you do that? How do you care …
[Read more...] about Mean Husbands and Wives Who Want to Love Them
An unprepared heart will not receive disappointment well. And when it comes, which it undoubtedly will, the temptation to become a cynic will be powerful. The cynic cocoons himself from hurt while …
[Read more...] about Cynicism Is a Response of the Disappointed
